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Visit to a Lost CIA Base in Afghanistan - The Frontier Post
The turbaned Taliban gather in front of the entrance to the deserted barracks. They fish their smartphones out of their vest pockets, switch on their flashlights, and illuminate the ghostly darkness inside. There are no windows in the corridor, nor the small, neat rooms to the left and right. If it weren’t for the nice office chairs and the comfortable bathroom cubicles, one might mistake them for cells. But the rooms are part of a section of a now abandoned military base in Shkin, in southeastern Afghanistan, that was once occupied by U.S. forces, including CIA officers...
Myanmar democracy in new era as Suu Kyi sidelined by army - Associated Press
In sentencing Myanmar’s iconic democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to prison, the country’s generals have effectively exiled her from electoral politics. But that doesn’t mean the Southeast Asian nation is back to square one in its stop-start efforts to move toward democracy...
US eyes Nord Stream 2 pipeline as Russian pressure point over Ukraine - Agence France Presse
In the showdown over Russia's implicit threat to invade Ukraine, the United States and European allies are eyeing what they see is a major vulnerability for Moscow -- the just-completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline to carry natural gas to Europe...
Biden meets virtually with Putin as tensions rise on Ukraine border - ABC News
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor discusses the White House press briefing, and also shares insight into President Joe Biden’s virtual meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin...
US playing catch-up to China after neglecting Asean: report - South China Morning Post
American neglect of Southeast Asian forums, coupled with China’s efforts to court the region, have left Washington playing catch-up in the influence stakes. That’s according to a recent report by the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, which urged Washington to engage more actively with regional institutions such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), the East Asia Summit and the Asean Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus...
Biden Is Running Out of Time to Help Ukraine Fend Off Russia - Foreign Policy
A week before the Thanksgiving holiday last month, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov came to his American counterpart Lloyd Austin’s third-floor Pentagon office with an unusually large request: He needed weapons systems, including many that the United States had never before provided to Ukraine, and he needed them fast...